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Series 72?

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I’m also happy to continue with it if anyone knows where I can find Series IX-Promised Land scripts.

Well, all of the actual lines are on the Smegadrive of course, but the formatting is not as conducive to your purposes.

I was able to get a workable transcript of The Promised Land by just copying all of the captions into a text editor and chopping out the blank spaces using sed but the lines of course are still not neatly delineated.

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Interesting, it works when I am logged in. But since I am feeling generous:

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Especially Timelash.

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And in the sheets?

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If that last one was bollocks though we’d be all over it.

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Am I the only one who ever heard that line as being “I really should be wearing clothes”?

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Spoilers!

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Talkie?

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It fucks me up how much he looks like Matt Gaetz.

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The United Kingdom.

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We all assume that the Cat will have a similar life span to Lister, but the oldest domestic cat only lived to be 38, and that was itself a huge exception.

How old was the Cat Priest exactly?

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I am reminded of how Americans were panic buying toilet paper during the last big port strike even though most of their supply is produced domestically.

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That admittedly seemed more original before I noticed we had looped onto another page…

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Even if it was water he’s still got most of it down his front.

Danny manages.

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In other news, we are still doubling down:

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Lines from something else that sound like they’re memes on G&T

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while not giving a shit about the fascinating new species under his nose (even though they have the specific number of breasts he desires)

They hide them well.

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Now may be the time to sit ID down and explain the House of Lords…

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Which begs the question of course of why a space station should not look like a shopping centre? Both are intended as large spaces where humans are meant to gather and do business.

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As a Canadian all I can say is that I have been there.

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Why does Lister insist on spilling half of it down his front anyway?

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So is it really free will?

I’d say that is a “no” then.

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The other hand however is kept quite busy.

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So I think we’ve decided to do it Rimmer-style. 

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Rimmer needs a cat. If they turn off some lights can they power a hologram cat? I feel like he’d be at least 20% less cunty if he could pet a cat.

That might make for an awkward situation for The Cat though.

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Or, the Series 1-VII Rimmer is still out there being Ace (or is dead and has passed the baton to another Rimmer), and the Dave era Rimmer is a new hologram that Lister chose to bring back after regaining control of the Dwarf, because he realised that he needed the moon to his sun.

The nice thing about this idea is that it sidesteps the whole memory thing by allowing for the injection of the actual truth: the creator of the hologram simply wanted him the be this way.

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just a general sense that the adults are back in the room again

this is how I felt about Biden, but then the dementia and the Israel stuff kinda put me off him (among other things)

This came up in my YouTube feed this morning:

As for the Tories, if they want PR they can come join us over in the cool kids pool, but they definitely have to shower first because they stink.

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Certainly would not see Sherlock slotting neatly into the PBS Mystery! block.

EDIT: Except it actually did? Huh, I guess I should not make pronouncements when I no longer have satellite TV.

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I think this is treating the result in slightly over-simplistic terms and ignoring important context around this election … I think you really have to factor in the dynamics of that tactical voting and see it as much as an anti-Tory victory as it is a Labour triumph. It’s no coincidence that the Lib Dems had such a massive boost this time around.

The thing is, I don’t think the actual numbers support this. Despite both making massive seat gains both Labour and the Liberal Democrats actually got fewer votes in this election than they managed last time in 2019, or if you are being charitable, they were well within the margin of error of their previous popular vote percentages when factoring in lower turnout. They just treaded water while the Tories drowned.

Instead, the parties that did actually significantly grow their votes, Reform and the Greens, were also the least likely to be favoured to tactically defeat the Tories in the greatest number of seats. People were voting with their hearts rather than their head, to flip the script on that tired old Labour refrain. Also see the large support for a number of independents including and alongside Corbyn.

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Strong and Stable Firefox?

In terms of referendum results though, I am sure you Brits do have bigger things to argue over.

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No matter which party you support, the amount of distortion to the seat counts in this election is an utter disgrace. No party anywhere in the world is entitled to a majority government with only 33.8% of the popular vote. First-past-the-post is the real villain of the night.

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Before you ask, The Promised Land is just listed as that.

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“Former” or “Erstwhile” need not mean dead or no longer a thing, just the previous item in a list. In this case, the list of possible candidates in the pod includes Barbara Bellini and the Simulant. “Former” as opposed to “Latter”.

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I would always assume pre-VI that Rimmer’s program is running from a computer on Red Dwarf considering that’s a plot point in Thanks for the Memory,

Yeah, but the introduction of the Light Bee already kind of confuses all that so.

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